Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law

by Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Susan Breau

Overview

The International Committee of the Red Cross's study of Customary International Humanitarian Law by Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck (Cambridge, 2005) contains a unique collection of evidence of the practice of States and non-State actors in the field of international humanitarian law, together with the authors' assessment of that practice and their compilation of rules of customary law based on that assessment. The study invites comment on its compilation of rules. Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law results from a year-long examination of the study by a group of military lawyers, academics and practitioners, all with experience in international humanitarian law. The book discusses the study, its methodology and its rules and provides a critical analysis of them. It adds its own contribution to scholarship on the interpretation and application of international humanitarian law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107402386
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/26/2011
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	466
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Wilmshurst is Senior Fellow, International Law at Chatham House in London, and Visiting Professor at University College, London.

Susan Breau is Reader in International Law at the School of Law, University of Surrey, and previously the Dorset Fellow in International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

Table of Contents

Part I. Setting the Scene - Theoretical Perspectives on International Law in the ICRC Study: 1. The methodological framework of the study Daniel Bethlehem; 2. The approach to customary international law in the study Iain Scobbie; 3. Other areas of customary law in relation to the study Françoise Hampson; Part II. Status of Conflict and Combatants - The ICRC Study: 4. Status of conflict Jelena Pejic; 5. Combatant status Anthony Rogers; Part III. Commentary on Selected Rules from the ICRC study: 6. Targeting Michael Schmitt; 7. Protected persons and objects Susan C. Breau; 8. Environment Karen Hulme; 9. Methods of warfare William J. Fenrick; 10. Weapons of warfare Steven Haines; 11. Fundamental guarantees Françoise Hampson; 12. Prisoner of war status Agnieszka Jachec-Neale; 13. Displacement and displaced persons Ryszard Piotrowicz; 14. Implementation and compliance David Turns; 15. War crimes Charles Garraway; Part IV. Conclusions: 16. Conclusions Elizabeth Wilmshurst.

Editorial Reviews

"It is superb. I believe it is fair, diplomatic, but justifiably critical." -Hays Parks

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